Whereas Mike Joyce is busy writing a ebook, his former Smiths bandmate Johnny Marr was lately caught penning tweets about guitars that appeared to have been misplaced by UPS.
On Wednesday, September seventeenth, the guitar god himself revealed that he had been with out his famed instrument for over every week after a number of guitars had been misplaced by UPS.
“Expensive @UPS the place are my guitars? They disappeared every week in the past,” he wrote in his preliminary tweet, including the hashtags #fuckUPSinc and #freemyguitars. “I’m listening to from you now that they’ve been misplaced.”
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From there, Marr saved the stress on with a few fast however efficient follow-up messages, studying, “Ring Ring @UPS” and “Knock Knock @UPS.”
Whereas Marr did finally hear again from UPS, he wasn’t precisely enthused with the delivery big’s steps for decision: “Asking me to explain what my guitars seem like will not be filling me with confidence. They give the impression of being precisely like those you place in one in every of your a [sic] supply vans days in the past. Keep in mind?”
Marr’s subsequent tweet might have in the end confirmed useful to UPS, offering figuring out details about his guitar instances and revealing a stable sticker sport: “Search for one that claims ‘80’s Icon’ on the case and one other one that claims ‘Woke As Fuck’.”
Fortunately, Marr and UPS had been capable of type out the scenario, as he posted an replace right now (September 18th), thanking “whoever sorted out my guitars.”
If I can, there are just a few necessary ideas and takeaways from this entire ordeal:
- It’s someway comforting that even well-known rock stars aren’t resistant to the absurdity of every day life.
- Equally, it’s good that everybody, at one level or one other, should additionally yell into the void that’s coping with company X/Twitter accounts.
- Marr is loads funnier than I’d assumed him to be (or that he’d ever must be as a rock legend), and that’s additionally fairly comforting.
- Had been any of those guitars used on well-known songs/data?
- May we rent Marr to tweet at different company accounts? That’d be effectively price $25 to $40 per message.
- Is that this going to vary and/or enhance how UPS does enterprise? Particularly if all of indie rock descends upon the corporate?
For what it’s price, Marr wasn’t simply mad as a result of this occasion was like Yo-Yo Ma misplacing a cello, or Carrot Prime dropping his field o’props. As he made clear throughout a sitdown with Kyle Meredith again in 2023, Marr thinks about guitar and guitar music in a considerate and compelling method. Heck, he’s even launched a ebook celebrating a life lived with guitars. It’s not simply property, however maybe one thing that speaks to Marr’s id or a method of filtering the world — it’s Samson and his hair, actually.
Marr is presently touring the US forward of upcoming October dates in Europe. See his schedule beneath, and get tickets right here.
Expensive @UPS the place are my guitars ? They disappeared every week in the past. I’m listening to from you now that they’ve been misplaced. Clarify @fender @gibson #fuckUPSinc #freemyguitars
— Johnny Marr (@Johnny_Marr) September 17, 2025
Ring Ring @UPS #freemyguitars #fuckUPSinc
— Johnny Marr (@Johnny_Marr) September 17, 2025
Knock Knock @UPS #freemyguitars #fuckUPSinc
— Johnny Marr (@Johnny_Marr) September 17, 2025
Bang Bang Bang @UPS. Asking me to explain what my guitars seem like will not be filling me with confidence. They give the impression of being precisely like those you place in one in every of your a supply vans days in the past. Keep in mind ? #fuckUPSinc #freemyguitars
— Johnny Marr (@Johnny_Marr) September 17, 2025
Search for one that claims ‘80’s Icon’ on the case and one other one that claims ‘Woke As Fuck’ @UPS
— Johnny Marr (@Johnny_Marr) September 17, 2025
@UPS Whoever sorted out my guitars, thanks.
— Johnny Marr (@Johnny_Marr) September 18, 2025
Johnny Marr 2025 Tour Dates:
09/20 — Atlanta, GA @ Shaky Knees
09/21 — Nashville, TN @ Brooklyn Bowl Nashville
09/23 — Norfolk, VA @ The NorVa
09/25 — Buffalo, NY @ Electrical Metropolis
09/26 — Port Chester, NY @ The Capitol Theatre
09/27 — Brooklyn, NY @ Underneath the Okay Bridge Park
10/20 — Maastricht, NL @ Muziekgieterij
10/21 — Lille, FR @ L’Aéronef
10/22 — Paris, FR @ Élysée Montmatre
10/24 — Seraing, BE @ OM
10/25 — Utrecht, NL @ TivoliVredenburg
10/26 — Köln, DE @ Reside Music Corridor
10/28 — Hamburg, DE @ Grosse Freiheit 36
10/29 — Copenhagen, DK @ Amager Bio
10/31 — Berlin, DE @ Astra Kulturhaus
